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The right to play oneself : looking back on documentary film / Thomas Waugh.
LIBRA PN1995.9.D6 W38 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waugh, Thomas, 1948-
- Series:
- Visible evidence ; v. 23.
- Visible evidence ; v. 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary films--History and criticism.
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Originally written between 1974 and 2008, these ten essays by Waugh (film studies, Concordia U., Canada) represent the evolution of his thinking on documentary film over the past few decades. Focusing on the text of the documentary (that is, what is on the screen), the essays seek to push the canon beyond the Global North and also demonstrate an attachment to the potential of documentary film to articulate left and queer identity politics. Among the directors discussed are Dziga Vertov, Emile de Antonio, Barbara Hammer, Rosa von Praunheim, and Anand Patwardhan. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Preface : of pulses, panaceas, and parallel universes
- Why documentary filmmakers keep trying to change the world, or why people changing the world keep making documentaries (1984)
- Dziga Vertov, 1930s populism, and Three songs of Lenin (1975)
- Bread, water, blood, rifles, planes : documentary imagery of the Spanish Civil War from the North American Popular Front (1990)
- Acting to play oneself : performance in documentary (1990)
- Beyond Vøritø : Emile de Antonio (1977)
- Sufficient virtue, necessary artistry : the shifting challenges of revolutionary documentary history (2006-08)
- Lesbian and gay documentary : minority self-imaging, oppositional film practice, and the question of image ethics (1984)
- Walking on tippy toes : lesbian and gay liberation documentary of the post-stonewall period (1997)
- "Words of command" : cultural and political inflections of direct cinema in Indian independent documentary (1990)
- Joris Ivens and the legacy of committed documentary (1999).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0816645876
- 9780816645862
- 0816645868
- 9780816645879
- OCLC:
- 655302640
- Publisher Number:
- 99944055942
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